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Every Friday, we share strategies to help you level up your sales, marketing, and lead gen.
This week, Maddie unpacks Drake’s ice block rollout, why people immediately started trying to destroy it, and what happens when you stop talking at your audience and let them become part of the story instead.
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oooo i’m bored… let’s go pickaxe a giant block of ice 🧊 ⛏️
Most album announcements are the same.
Release date.
Teaser post.
Maybe a trailer if we’re feeling ambitious.
It works. It’s fine. It’s also completely forgettable.
This wasn’t that.
Inside it: his album release date.
And then… nothing.
No instructions.
No explanation.
No “check back tomorrow for the reveal.”
Just a thing sitting there, waiting for people to notice.
And they did.
But they didn’t just look at it.
They started interacting with it.
Chipping at the ice.
Pouring hot water on it.
Crowding around it, filming, narrating, trying to be the one who got to the answer first.
It turned into a full-on moment.
Not because it was announced that way.
But because people made it one.
And that’s the difference.
This wasn’t something to watch.
It was something to do.
There’s a big gap between those two things.
Most marketing lives on the “watch” side.
Scroll past this.
Like this.
Maybe click if you feel like it.
Very low effort. Very low involvement.
This pulled people in the other direction.
You had to show up.
Stand there.
Figure it out.
It gave people a role instead of an instruction.
And naturally, they took it way further than expected.
Because when people feel like they’re part of something, they don’t just engage: they escalate.
They don’t consume the story. They help create it.
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Now here’s the B2B part people love to ignore.
Because the immediate reaction is:
“Cool, but we’re not Drake.”
Yeah. Obviously.
You’re not putting a melting ice block outside your office and hoping your next enterprise client shows up with a blowtorch.
But that’s also not the point.
The point is participation.
Most B2B marketing is aggressively one-sided.
Everything is built around consumption, not interaction.
And then we wonder why it feels like nobody’s paying attention.
Because attention doesn’t come from more content.
It comes from involvement.
You don’t need chaos in the street, you need moments where the buyer isn’t just reading, they’re doing.
Answering something.
Choosing something.
Figuring something out with you instead of just being sold to.
That’s the shift.
From audience → participant.
Not louder marketing.
Just more interactive thinking.
And the brands that get that don’t feel like they’re fighting for attention all the time.
Because they’re not just being seen.
They’re being experienced.
Moral of the story: let’s get creative, people. Think outside the box (preferably not one made of ice in the middle of a city.)
—Maddie
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